Last year, a Special Lifetime Faith & Values Crystal Teddy Bear Award for Dedication to Redeeming the Values of the Mass Media of Entertainment was given to Pat Boone. Read more

Garrison seems to have been a difficult person to like, but an easy person to hate. That's partly because he was a prickly, vituperative writer and speaker who did things like burn copies of the Constitution, condemning it as "a Covenant with Death, an Agreement with Hell." He wasn't wrong about that. He wasn't wrong about much of anything. Read more

Check your fly, check your privilege. Black vs. Purple. Pranksters may lose in court, but they're highlighting hypocrisy. New England Journal of Medicine says respect the religious liberty of patients, not of CEOs who want to get in between patients and their doctors. Read more

"One of the tests of leadership at all levels of government is to confront problems before they become a crisis." That sounds like something one of George W. Bush's critics might say as an attack on the president's dismal fiscal track record, but it wasn't. It was President Bush himself, yesterday, in his speech concluding the White House Economic Conference. Read more

The cutting edge in advertising, plus more Monday links, including: Distrust of compulsory niceness; dinosaurs as damage control; exploding pig poop; necrocracy; how not to sound like a pompous twit; LIVESIHCODRUM; and a mission from God -- in Legos. Read more

Medieval Fun Time snubbed by Golden Globes. Sing sha la la la la la la. A discussion of pre-atomic pop apocalypseseses (/Riley Finn). The unnatural sex acts of nature. You're good enough to be too busy to worry if you're good enough. The problem of Susan, again. Read more

When one reads the audacious plans of the PNAC — the neoconservative Project for a New American Century — in the light of Greene's novel, what's striking is the way its authors seem to combine the worst elements of both Fowler and Pyle. It exhibits both Pyle's unbridled, hubristic idealism and Fowler's cynical regard for the naked power of imperial hegemony. Read more

The pretense that journalism requires- or even allows -- neutrality or indifference to good and bad is just that, a pretense. A lie. A vain lie in at least two senses of the word. It is a lie told out of vanity and arrogant self-flattery, and it is a futile lie due to its nonstop refutation by the newspapers themselves. Read more